Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software 2.0 for business applications

To maximise flexibility and minimise costs, user organisations are increasingly looking for a range of cloud-based options including open standard-based integrated system platforms providing virtualisation, multitenancy, advanced automation and facilitated operations as well as compatibility with public cloud environments. Oracle has announced the release of its Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software 2.0, which has been optimised for running business applications.

The product helps to eliminate application and middleware deployment risk with one-click automated deployment of complex, multitier business applications. Customers are said to experience up to 10x performance gains for Oracle Applications, Java-based applications and other business applications as well as up to 6x faster application provisioning to help customers quickly respond to changing market needs.

Built on open, industry-standard technologies, the product supports virtualisation of mission-critical business applications with near native performance vs physical servers through Oracle VM integration. It provides a high-speed communication (I/O) fabric, Oracle Exabus, which ties the system’s components together.

It delivers elasticity at the application level through integrated application-to-disk management with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. It supports consolidation of multiple applications on the same system as a private cloud, while eliminating security risks through complete application isolation. Oracle Traffic Director, a built-in Application Delivery Controller, securely manages and routes large volumes of application traffic with high performance.